High-contrast homogenization: Provider.Recurrence.DetTransport #
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Determinant transport for the fixed-grid recurrence #
The proof of p.fixed.geometry.parent.child.recurrence compares two consecutive adapted
scales through the relative mean P = E_p^{-1/2} E_j E_p^{-1/2}. Once the mean
order E_p ≤ E_j is available, everything the recurrence asks of P is a
statement about a positive definite matrix above the identity, and that is what
is proved here.
The determinant identities for the parent-child normalization read
det P = e^{Δ}, Δ ≥ 0 and |P| ≤ e^{Δ} for the determinant increment
Δ = log det E_j - log det E_p. The determinant identity is the change of
variables under the congruence; the sign of Δ is monotonicity of the
determinant for the Loewner order; and the spectral bound is the observation
that the largest eigenvalue of a matrix above the identity is at most the
product of all of them.
The recurrence then needs the trace gap b = tr(P - I), and the step
b = Σ(λ_i - 1) ≤ Π λ_i - 1 = e^{Δ} - 1 of the fixed-grid proof. Its content
is the elementary inequality that for reals at least one the sum of the excesses
is at most the excess of the product, proved here by induction on the index set
and then read on the eigenvalues.
Finally the fixed-grid proof passes from the child normalization to the parent
one by "the exact congruence"
E_p^{-1/2}(G - E_j)E_p^{-1/2} = C^t (E_j^{-1/2}(G - E_j)E_j^{-1/2}) C with
C = E_j^{1/2} E_p^{-1/2}. That identity holds for an arbitrary matrix in
place of G and is pure square-root algebra; it is recorded in that generality.
The sum of excesses and the excess of the product #
For reals at least one, the sum of the excesses over one is at most the
excess over one of the product. Adjoining a factor multiplies the product by
f a and adds f a - 1 to the sum, and the two differ by the nonnegative
product (f a - 1)(∏ f - 1).
The trace gap #
The trace gap of a matrix above the identity is at most its determinant
gap. This is the step b = Σ(λ_i - 1) ≤ Π λ_i - 1 of the fixed-grid
recurrence, read on the eigenvalues of the relative mean.
The determinant transport display #
The determinant increment is the logarithm of the determinant of the relative mean.
The relative mean of an ordered pair of positive definite matrices lies
above the identity: this is the mean order E_p ≤ E_j conjugated by
E_p^{-1/2}.
The determinant identities for the parent-child normalization of the
fixed-grid recurrence. For an ordered pair of positive definite means
the relative mean P = E_p^{-1/2} E_j E_p^{-1/2} lies above the identity, its
determinant is e^{Δ} for the determinant increment
Δ = log det E_j - log det E_p, that increment is nonnegative, the spectral
size of P is at most e^{Δ}, and the trace gap tr(P - I) is at most
e^{Δ} - 1.
The congruence between the two normalizations #
The exact congruence of the fixed-grid recurrence. Passing from the
child normalization by E_j to the parent normalization by E_p is conjugation
by C = E_j^{1/2} E_p^{-1/2}; the identity holds for an arbitrary matrix in the
centered slot, which is where the averaged child response enters.